Taylor Swift performs at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday. She took home 8 statuettes, including one for top artist. / Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Today could be the hottest day so far of 2013, with the high maxing out in the upper 80s. “Hard to believe we were waking up to patchy frost just last Monday morning,” said Poteet. If you get out and about, as this pedestrian did yesterday at the Downtown Canal, make sure you’re dressed for the heat and humidity.

Tensions are already rising: Miami superstar LeBron James is claiming that Pacers’ coach Frank Vogel snubbed the Heat when he made the comment “they’re just the next team that’s in our way” about their Eastern Conference Finals opponent. “We’re not just another team,” James told Miami reporters on Sunday. “We’re a great team. If we’re just another team, you really don’t prepare for just another team. You have to prepare for us.” Game 1 is Wednesday at American Airlines Arena in Miami.

The $7 million busted deal to bring Carbon Motors to Connersville highlights major problems with the program to redistribute $10 million a year in Lawrenceburg riverboat casino revenue to local governments in Southeast Indiana for economic development projects. But it’s spent with little due diligence, few conditions and virtually no restrictions on how it can be spent, a Star investigation found. It’s also resulted in relatively few jobs. Supporters of the grant program argue that for every failure, there are dozens of success stories.

Earlier this month, the Indiana Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit against Delta Tau Delta by the family of Johnny Dupree Smith. The 18-year-old was found dead on Oct. 5, 2008 -- his blood-alcohol content five times the 0.08 blood-alcohol level at which a person is considered drunk. The ruling is the first by an appellate court in Indiana, where many fraternities are based, that a national fraternity must face a trial for injury or death at a chapter house, said Stephen Wagner, a lawyer for Smith’s parents.

The Indianapolis Fire department estimated that 30-50 gallons of gas per minute spilled Sunday at the Shell Gas station, 3002 N. Illinois St. Streets near the station at 30th and Illinois streets were closed while emergency crews worked into the evening to contain the spill. The incident is still under investigation and comes a week after a more serious fuel leak, in a Marathon Products pipeline, forced the closure of West 56th Street for several days.

Are SPF ratings on sunscreen “just a gimmick” as one expert says? Many consumers assume that SPF 100 is twice as effective as SPF 50, but dermatologists say the difference between the two is actually negligible. The FDA called SPF numbers above 50 “misleading” in 2011 but has not issued a ruling about their use in marketing and labels.

John Mellencamp will debut the musical he and Stephen King, along with T-Bone Burnett, have been working on for 13 years on Oct. 10 at the Indiana University Auditorium and Oct. 18 at Butler’s Clowes Hall. “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County” was inspired by a cabin on land owned by Mellencamp where, according to legend, one brother killed another over a girl and later died in a car crash with her. Tickets are now on sale at IUauditorium.com and Ticketmaster.com; an album is set for release June 4.

The singer told the crowd: "You are the longest and best relationship I ever had." She also performed her hit "22" during the broadcast.

Rapper Nicki Minaj and Rapper Lil Wayne also performed onstage during the awards. Minaj raised eyebrows, including on Lil Wayne, with her lap dance number. My question about Minaj -- does she EVER smile?